East of the Andean mountain range lies the steamy rainforests of Ecuador's slice of the Amazon Basin, known as the Oriente. With an amazing diversity of flora and fauna, the Oriente occupies half the country but is home to less than 5 percent of the people. The tropical jungle, however, is more accessible than you might imagine and accommodations are probably more civilized than you would expect.

Regular flights from Quito to Coca city allow you to experience a virgin jungle in pristine condition, with thousands of species of orchid, plus sloths, monkeys, macaws, and pink river dolphins. And throughout this hot, sticky paradise are dozens of native tribes, retaining ancient customs despite the intrusion of outsiders.

Pañacocha Protected Forest:

is a network of waterways that travel through the 56,000 hectares of primary rainforest, home to jaguars and ocelots, 9 species of monkeys, 500 species of birds and many more.

Important as it is in its own right, Panacocha achieves added significance as the corridor connecting 2 much larger areas, to the south, it is bordered by the Yasuni National Park and World Biosphere Park which is 982,000 hectares and to the north by the 600,000 hectare Cuyabeno Biological Reserve.

Nestled inside the Protected Forest is the Panacocha Lagoon.

It is here that you can see the Amazon River Dolphin swimming each day. Visitors can enjoy swimming in the lagoon as well as the magic of bird watching as they float along the edges in dugout canoes

Ecosystem ...

The Amazonas ecosystem, particularly its tropical rain forest, is considered to be one of the richest and most complex communities of plant and animal life in the world. The region is characterized by huge and diverse amounts of flora and fauna with extraordinary variations in their habitats and micro­ habitats.

In the jungle of the Upper Amazon 100 species of trees per acre have been recorded. In Central America, only up to 40 species per acre have been discovered. In the temperate forests of North America and Europe, rarely more than 20 different species exist per acre.

The Amazon's rivers, lakes, streams and marshlands support over 600 species of fish and more than 250 species of amphibians and reptiles. The lagoons of the Napo and Aguarico River basins are home to colonies of two species of caimans that grow to over 13 feet in length.

Amazon Dolphin Lodge, is a member of YUTURI CONSERVATION GROUP, an organization involved in rainforest conservation projects helped by San Carlos Foundation.

The Yuturi Conservation Group, the Pañacocha foundation and the San Carlos foundation are working together to help implement the conservation measures of the Management Plan for the Pañacocha Protected Forest.

The first step is to arrive to Puerto Francisco de Orellana (El Coca)

1.- By airplane.- The air companies, offer daily flights from Quito to Coca. In this case a member of the Amazon Dolphin Lodge is going to assist you at the national airport in Coca.

You have to be at the airport 45 minutes before the flight´s take off. After 25 minutes of flying you will be landing at the airport of Coca. Our staff in COCA, is going to pick up you there and take you until the Hotel Oasis. The canoe will be leaving from the hotel Oasis at 11H00 aprox. and five hours them you will be in the Amazon Dolphin Lodge.

QUITO - COCA

COCA - QUITO

day

schedule

day

schedule

monday to friday

10h30 am

monday to friday

11h45 am

saturday

13h30 am

saturday

14h30 am

sunday

14h30 pm

sunday

15h30 pm

The fly schedule is subjet to change without notice, please take contact with our personal in order to confirm the fly schedules and rates changes

2.- By bus .- The company "Trans-Esmeraldas or Transportes Baños" offers its passengers the alternative of travelling at the morning or at night.

QUITO - COCA

COCA - QUITO

day

schedule

day

schedule

monday to sunday

06h45 am

monday to sunday

08h45 am

monday to sunday

21h00 pm

monday to sunday

21h45 pm

If you take the bus at night you will travel the route: Quito - Baeza - Loreto - El Coca (Pto. Francisco de Orellana). This trip can last eight hours.

Once in the city of Puerto Francisco de Orellana you have take a taxi from the bus station to the Hotel Oasis. In this place you will need to show your services voucher to have the assistance of a member of the Amazon Dolphin Lodge

Dolphin Adventure

Discovering Yasuni

Pañacocha Forest

05 days / 04 nights

04 days / 03 nights

04 days / 03 nights

Thanks to our central location in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon, our professional local guides, our multilingual staff, and our motivation we offer a hands-on experience of the jungle. We are able to achieve a wide range of possibilities to explore the plants, animals and cultural diversity of the area and provide the adventure that, without a doubt, you have been looking for.

visit the Yasuni National Park. Visit KURIMUYO community, typical lunch of the region with excelent anfitrions. Navigate by the Napo River to know the upper and the low cloud forest in one unforgettable travel. Night excursions by canoes on the laggons, claylicks, trekking inside the forest, more than 5 species of monkeys, piranha fishing, birdwaching, nocturnal excursion to see caimans, and more, sooooo more.

Leave Quito by plane to the small amazon city of Coca. Travel down the Napo River and arrive at the Amazon Dolphin Lodge and the Bosque Protector PAÑACOCHA. Lunch will be served during the trip. Arrive at the lodge at around 5:00 PM. Dinner. Night walk along a short trail to observe insect life, night monkeys, reptiles etc. and listen to the fantastic evening concert of the jungle.